CONTENTS i; 



Chapter 70. FARM LABOR 864 



Social relation of farm labor — Why is farm labor scarce — Extent of employment 

 — Solution of farm labor problem — Demand for labor — Hours of work — Wage of 

 farm labor — Housing farm labor — Interesting the farm hand — Skilled and unskilled 

 labor — Permanency of employment — Management of men — Productive and 

 unproductive work — Doing work on time — Winter work — Work for stormy days 

 — Economizing time — Workman's attitude — Saving horse labor. 



Chapter 71. THE FARMER'S CAPITAL 875 



How to secure capital — Cash transactions — Agricultural credit — The Raiffeisen 

 bank — Borrowing money — Farm mortgages — Extent of debt permissible — Relation 

 of banker to farmer — Working capital — Distribution of capital — Capital related 

 to area — Capital related to labor income — Capital related to type of farming — 

 Farming with small capital — Purchasing a farm — Land as an investment. 



Chapter 72. FARM RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS 884 



Object of keeping accounts — Essential records — Blank forms and books necessary 

 — How to keep accounts — Time required to keep accounts — Best time to start 

 accounts — Annual inventory — Values to use — Receipts and expenditures — Accounts 

 with farm enterprises — Work records — Abbreviated accounts — Classification of 

 troublesome items — Plan of farm and cropping system — Closing the accounts — 

 Outline of accounts — Interpretation of results. 



Chapter 73. MARKETS, MARKETING AND CO-OPERATION 909 



Cost of distribution — Middlemen — The consumer — The producer's shares — Legisla- 

 tive regulations of commission business — Advertising — Marketing the farm products 

 — Trend of prices — Selling directly to consumer — The motor truck in marketing — 

 Co-operation — In what can farmers co-operate — Exchanging help — Cow testing 

 associations — Marketing dairy products — Marketing livestock — Marketing eggs — 

 Marketing vegetables — Marketing fruit — Some successful co-operative associations 

 — Importance of able management — Supervision of co-operation. 



BOOK Vin. PLANT AND ANIMAL DISEASES, INSECT ENEMIES 

 AND THEIR CONTROL 



Chapter 74. DISEASES OF ANIMALS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT 929 



The essentials to health — Knowledge of disease should precede treatment — General 

 rules for maintaining health — Comfort — Exercise — General management — Nursing 

 — Disease — Examination of sick animals — Rational measures for treatment. 



Chapter 75. DISEASES OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD CROPS, 



AND THEIR REMEDIES 938 



Apple. Bitter rot or ripe rot — Black rot — Brown rot — Storage rots — Scab — Blotch 



■ — Rust — Fire blight — Other foliage spots and twig cankers — Mildew — Crown gall 



and hairy root. 



Pear. Blight — Rust — Scab — Leaf spot — Rots — Crown gall. 



Quince. Rust — Blight — Leaf — Rots — Crown gall — Spray table for apples, pears 



and quinces. 



Peach. Brown rot — Scab or freckles — Leaf curl — Shot holes — Crown gall — Mildew 



— Yellows — Little peach — Peach rosette — Spray table for peach. 



Plum. Black knot — Leaf spot — Mildew — Yellows — Brown rot — Crown gall — 



Spray table for plums. 



Cherry. Leaf spot — Black knot — Crown gall — Brown rot — Powdery mildew — 



Spray table for sweet cherries. 



Citrus Fruits. Brown rot — Black rot — Stem end rot and melanose — Other rots — ■ 



Sooty mould — Black pit of the lemon — Anthracnose or wither tip — Scab — Canker. 



Fig. Rust — Cankers — Fruit rots. 



Pineapple — Mango — Avocado. 



